Lyons, Sara (2020) Thomas Hardy and the Value of Brains. Victorian Literature and Culture, 48 (2). pp. 327-359. ISSN 1060-1503. E-ISSN 1470-1553. (doi:10.1017/S1060150318001572) (KAR id:68534)
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Abstract
This article reads Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders (1887) and Jude the Obscure (1895) as ambivalent responses to the new conception of human intelligence which emerged from Victorian psychology and evolutionary theory and which formed the basis of what I describe as the Victorian biopolitics of intelligence. Although these novels reflect Hardy’s endorsement of the new biological model of intelligence, they also register his resistance to what many late Victorians assumed to be its corollary: that mental worth can be an object of scientific measurement, classification, and ranking. I suggest that the work of the philosopher Jacques Rancière illuminates the extent to which these novels challenge the scientific reification of intellectual inequality and attempt to vindicate overlooked and stigmatised forms of intelligence.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1017/S1060150318001572 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Thomas Hardy; intelligence; The Woodlanders; Jude the Obscure |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English |
Depositing User: | Sara Lyons |
Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2018 09:31 UTC |
Last Modified: | 09 Dec 2022 01:18 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/68534 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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